Madaleno, Mara; Pinho, Carlos - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 3 (2010) 1, pp. 26-62
We explore optimal hedge ratios and hedging effectiveness for the German electricity market. Given the increasing … in order to account for risk reduction through hedging. Results allow us to conclude that: dynamic hedging strategies … provide higher variance reductions in terms of hedging effectiveness; there is poor correlation among spot and futures, not …